Video encoding for web delivery in Flash can be tricky business.…In this lesson, I will give you some helpful tips and tricks to avoid common…encoding mistakes and achieve the best video playback possible.…As we have probably already experienced, getting a really good quality video and…getting it to play back well take some trial and error.…As discussed in previous lessons, the three main encoding settings are key-…frames, frame rate, and bit-rate.…Ultimately, your goal is to balance these three elements to achieve smooth…playback, reasonable file size, and a crisp image quality--…in short, perfection.…

However, since encoding is a process of compressing video and audio data, some…data must be thrown out.…In this diagram, you can see, at a glance, what happens when you throw out too much…data from any one of the three encoding elements.…If you keep a high bit-rate and high frame rate and throw out too much keyframe…data, you will get a big file with blurry transitions and motion.…If you keep that high bit-rate and a high number of data-heavy keyframes but…

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3/23/2011

In Publishing Video with the Flash Platform, Lisa Larson-Kelley demonstrates how to build a Flash video player and publish video online, without the use of custom ActionScript code. The course guides web site developers through the video publishing process in distinct projects of increasing complexity. Each project results in a fully-functional video player, embedded into an HTML page and ready to publish online. Exercise files are included with the course.